Am I a bad employee?

[Provost Harrison]

Aren't suicides hilarious eh?

[Japher]

started off funny, dragged a little, and then got really boring... kind of like Star Wars

[Dis]

Originally posted by Provost Harrison
Aren't suicides hilarious eh?

[Dinner]

They're 30 minutes late. I friend said he left work late (he worked a half day) and both of them still need to pack. I could have worked a half day.

I shall make the best of it. Since I won't be driving today I've decided to start drinking Pacifico beer from Mazatlan. :beer:

[Dinner]

Originally posted by germanos


Do I understand right:
'taking a sick day' basically means you are taking an unpaid day off?

For me yes but for most people it is a paid day. Because I am a new employee I am in the "probationary period" where you don't get little things like paid days off. Well, not entirely true since I do get all government holidays off with pay (things like Christmas, Thanksgiving, Veterans Day, etc) but I don't get to just take paid days off until after my 90 day probationary period is over.

[Dinner]

Originally posted by JohnT


Depends upon the job. I'm assuming, from what I'm reading here, that's what Oerdin means. If he's hourly, and new, then likely. If he's salaried, he gets paid his salary on his sick days.

I was highered through a temp agency on a temp to perm basis. That means for 90 days I work for the temp agency and then my real employer has the option of picking me up without paying a finder's fee (if they want to higher me before 30 days they can but must pay a finder's fee). Since there is currently a shortage of geologists and I do a great job for them (or so my boss and my boss's boss tell me) it is highly likely I will be picked up at the end of 90 days and get a sizable raise since they will no longer have to pay the temp agency a cut of my fee. I am currently dating the women who works for the temp agency so I know that they get a 25%-30% cut of my gross wages. I currently get paid $20 per hour but the company I work for pays the temp agency is paid $29 (I know since my girl friend is the one who hired me) from the company. That means after 90 days I get hired on by the company and the temp agency disappears from the scene.

Likely I will get some of that $9 per hour and likely the company will keep some of it. I'm expecting at least an average of a $5 per hour raise (though I will be classified as a salaried and exempt employee which is why I don't feel bad about shorting them a day now). I also rent out two rooms in my house so I get a bit extra there. I'm not a rich man but I do well considering I'm just one guy without a family to support.

[Kontiki]

Originally posted by Oerdin
They're 30 minutes late. I friend said he left work late (he worked a half day) and both of them still need to pack. I could have worked a half day.

I shall make the best of it. Since I won't be driving today I've decided to start drinking Pacifico beer from Mazatlan. :beer:

B@stards. I remember a few years (eight, now that I think about it - crap, time flies) back when I was living in Vancouver, me and two buddies were going to take a road trip down to San Fran. One of my friends was also my roomate, and we told the other guy to be at our place at 9:00 so we could get a reasonably early start and miss the Seattle rush hour. He showed up at 3:00.

[Zkribbler]

And it's always more convince if you go home sick rather than call in sick.

You: I'm really feeling terrible. I hope I don't throw up.
Boss: Egad! Go home! Feel better! Don't throw up here!

[Japher]

my boss will ocassionally say "go home", more so as a joke than as a suggestion.

we all say ok, and go home

really

[Dinner]

They're hear! We're going to leave now.

Surfing here I come!

[Dis]

see ya!

[Colonâ„¢]

Whatever happened to the protestant work-ethos that build America?

[Zkribbler]

I think it just set out for Puerta Nueva

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by Colon
Whatever happened to the protestant work-ethos that build America?

It's doing business in South Korea

[Chemical Ollie]

I wouldn't do a thing like that until after several years with the same employer. I've done it a few times to play Civ while having only a minor head ache or something But I've never called in sick without having any symptom at all.